A Whale Burial in Magheraroarty, Donegal, March 2007
One day in March (I think) 2007 I was walking along the beach at Magheraroarty when I came across a large crowd watching two diggers preparing a sandy grave for…
Tag: noise and whales
Extinct in Ireland, September 23rd, the North Atlantic right whale
Pádraic Fogarty lists the North Atlantic right whale or Nordcapper (also known as the Northern Right Whale) as one of the mammals extinct in Ireland since human habitation here: Regularly…
The Power of sound – Blogging the #Octonauts: Kwazii Meets the Mixed Up Whale
Following a recent post on possibly excessive self-sacrifice in an episode of the Octonauts, here’s a more unambiguously positive post on an episode which neatly illustrates an environmental issue that…
Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin
I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick: “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…
A note on whales and silence from The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
“But on the voyage itself none of Brendan’s crew guessed what was about to happen, not even Trondur, who had a great deal of experience of whales and whale-catching. Day after…
Séamus Sweeney 